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Good news for Bybit

20 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Bybit, a relatively well-known and popular crypto exchange, has been on the receiving end of some pretty good news recently. Bybit had been added to France's AMF (basically the French equivalent of the SEC) blacklist. Now, Bybit has been removed fr...

Coinbase is doing just fine

19 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Coinbase, one of the most popular crypto exchanges, is doing really well. In Q4, Coinbase revenue surged 88 percent, with $1.29 billion in terms of income, and $2.2 billion net revenue. Coinbase said it all shot up after the election as the crypto...

And just like that, Trust points are gone

18 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

A while back, Trust Wallet launched a new thing called Trust Points. In short, you can accrue points by signing in every day and completing other tasks, and said points would then be redeemed for unspecified future rewards. This went on for a few w...

12 US States hold a stake in Michael Saylor's Strategy. Guess who the largest stakeholder of Strategy is?

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Twelve US states have reported holding Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, stock in their state pension funds and/or treasury in 2024. That's $330 million in total. According to the filings, the list of States includes Arizona, California (two separa...

"10 percent of global GDP to be on crypto rails by 2030," according to Coinbase

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that as much as 10 percent of the whole world economy will be "on crypto rails" by 2030. Onchain is the new online, according to Armstrong. If his prediction comes true, then as much as $10 trillion will exist a...

"Cost of running AI goes down 10x every year", according to Sam Altman

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said running AI is getting cheaper, not more expensive. According to Altman, the cost of running different levels of AI goes down ten-fold every 12 months, and so that leads to wider usage. Altman used OpenAI's GPT-4o as an exa...

GameStop is up, and guess why

14 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

GameStop, as in the unofficial Solana-based memecoin, not the stock, is up 18 percent over the last 24 hours. Guess why. If the answer is, 'because GameStop is considering investing in Bitcoin', then that's the correct answer. According to a CNBC r...

The State of Michigan is also considering adding crypto reserve to its coffers

14 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Michigan has become the latest US state to introduce a legislation proposing strategic investment in crypto, the 20th US state to do so. Bryan Posthumus, a state representative, said Michigan "can and should join Texas in leading on crypto policy."...

Landfill with 8,000 BTC buried in it to shut down - A sad but predictable ending to a very sad but common story

13 Feb 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

I feel bad for James Howells, the man who lost a hard drive with the keys to retrieve his stack of 8,000 BTC. But the truth is, these things happened a lot in the past, but hopefully they'll happen a bit less frequently in the past. Howells, like s...

NFT gaming app you probably forgot you downloaded is launching a new game on X

10 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Upland, an NFT gaming platform with a focus on real estate, is launching a new game on X. Upland was a big deal when NFTs were a big deal, but that wave has gone now and it seems people don't care that much anymore. But whatever, Upland is introduc...